Funeral mask

Like most Animist peoples, the Kamba, believe in a Creator God, omnipotent, transcendent and distant, Ngai or Mulungu. They practice the cult of ancestors, the Aimu, their main intercessors. One of its most important rituals is the Kilumi dance, accompanied by prayers and offerings intended to provoke rain, so important in drought-prone territories. And as most African peoples have great gifts for music and dance, always present in all events of social and religious life.

It is a simple oval mask, shallow. It stands out its large open rectangular mouth showing two rows of metal teeth and the row of small scarifications that, increasing in size, go down from front to the tip of the nose. The cheeks have another X-shaped scarification. The masks Kamba They're pretty weird.